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Sunday, January 21, 2007

El movie

C/O The Bilson freak, with cheers to Varese Sarabande for releasing the score CD to Snakes on a Plane next month, and jeers to YouTube for pulling certain Erica Campbell and Hayden Panettiere videos before I could see them. Blast their violations of use policies.

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.Do Tom & Jerry cartoons count as movies? Seriously, I think Back to the Future might qualify.

2. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater.Well, I had to sit through Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo at the cinema by myself and at the drive-in when my dad took us to see it, but the only real example that counts is Beauty and the Beast (I went to see it at a special Saturday morning showing at the Globe, and then when it got a rare regular engagement there as a leading feature - rare for a cartoon in those dim days of the early 1990s in Barbados - I went to see it again).

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie. Laetitia Casta.

4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie. Er... Freddie Prinze Jr.?

5. Name a movie that you can and do quote from.Die Hard ("Welcome to the party, pal!").

6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.Beauty and the Beast probably comes closest.

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.High School Musical. And the aforementioned Beauty and the Beast.

8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.Rock'N'Roll High School. The Ramones! The school being blown up!

9. Name a movie that you own.Malena, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Into The Blue, Belleville Rendezvous, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beauty and the Beast...

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.Mos Def - excellent in 16 Blocks and Something The Lord Made.

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?Yep - On The Right Track (one of Gary Coleman's hiatus movies in the Diff'rent Strokes days), the 1976 King Kong, at least two of the Star Trek movies, Short Circuit, Back to the Future, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, Tron, Firefox, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial...

12. Ever made out in a movie?No.

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it.Pass.

14. Ever walked out of a movie?I never walk out of a movie I haven't seen before.

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.Schindler's Listcame closest.

16. Popcorn?I hate popcorn.

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?Quite often. Unfortunately I haven't been this year because I've been ill...

I can see your POV given that most of her movies and TV work haven't turned up in the US (or in the UK widely) - Laetitia's spent more time acting (and having children with different men) than modelling in recent years - her most recent movie came out at the end of last year (not counting replacing Julia Roberts as the voice of Charlotte in the French dub of Charlotte's Web). And I maintain that she's still a better actress than Mischa Barton.

The James Horner Spot.

The Tell Them Who I Am Spot.

...is a 43-year-old guy who likes listening to film and TV music, whose days of eating entire packets of biscuits are gone thanks to the ol' diabetes, whose hair - thanks to genetics - now has a bald spot on top but who is fortunately 6'2" so it's hard to see, who enjoys the box (particularly American shows - and the often-made British claim that "we only see the best of US TV" is a fallacy as anyone who has cable will testify. I think it's Americans who only see the best of Br... I hate that term, so I refuse to sully this blog with it), who's gotten most of his friends through stories and the net, who loves writing about attractive female celebrities, who slaves at a direct mail company, and who isn't as sorry he grew up in Barbados between 1976 and 1993 as he used to be. Oh, and he doesn't seem any emotionally different from when he was 12. A man really is a child grown up, child is father of the man, and so on...